The Talkin' Baseball progressive league is heading into its 28th season! The league was founded in 1950, and we are looking for one owner to join us starting in the 1977 season, the first season in which we will run with 24 teams!

The available team is located in St. Louis and resides in the NL Central.

Important: We only want owners who are looking to stay with us for the long term. To be more precise, we are requesting at minimum a 6 (six) season commitment from you. We'll call it a gentlemen's agreement. Progressive league vets and non-experienced owners looking to join/learn a progressive league are both welcome in this league. If you aren't willing or interested in playing with us for at least 6 seasons, we do thank you for looking here but you aren't what we are looking for.

We have just started the 1977 draft OFF the clock. We will slow play the draft until we go on the clock, which isn't until Monday, March 30th. We are currently xxx games into the 1976 season as of this post. Team has the xx pick in the first round, via the lotto process explained in the next post. Team picks xx in all subsequent rounds. Taking this team now will allow you to participate in the draft, but also know that you won't be playing games until the 1977 season starts, which will probably be around the second week of April.

We absolutely do not condone tanking games in this league. This has never been an issue here and the league takes great pride in that. Eyes are always watching, and even the appearance of tanking games can lead to dismissal from the league, period. If you play progressive leagues using this strategy, then you aren't welcome here. If you want to play in a league where everyone is trying to do their best regardless of what their roster looks like in any given season, then please choose us!

A four-tier lotto system (6/6/6/6) is used to determine next season's first round draft order after 120 games. 6 worst teams get put in lotto for picks 1 through 6 in next season's draft. Next 6 worst teams get put in a lotto for picks 7 through 12, and so on. Lotto is for the first round of the draft only. Subsequent rounds are worst team to best team, based on record at 120 games into the current season.

We have some additional cool features in this league. You have the ability to shuffle players up and down from AAA virtually all season (deadline is before game 160 of the season). Typically not a lot of down time between seasons. On average, we are starting the next season about one week after the World Series concludes. We have a league record book that is updated each season and we also have a Hall of Fame for the league! There is also a franchise history thread in our private forum where you can learn who the previous owners of your franchise were, along with all of the prior team names and a championship/pennant/playoff appearances count.

Important: We attempt to keep things moving at a semi-brisk pace. We start drafting off the clock not too long after the 120 game mark at a leisurely pace. Once the playoffs start, we draft on the clock and pick up wherever we are in the draft at that point. We attempt to keep down time to a minimum between seasons, as we usually finish the draft around the same time that the World Series is finishing up. So keep in mind when considering our league that we move faster than the typical progressive, which may suit you very well or not so well.

The Talkin' Baseball league is a fairly standard, single season progressive: Alternate WIS Format E (4 divisions, 4 teams in each. Division winners make playoffs. Each series best of seven). No DH. No live play. Unlimited IR. No salary cap. 6/2 below average AAA players, randomly generated (6 bats, 2 arms).

A two-tier lotto system to determine next season's first round draft order after 120 games. 8 worst teams get put in lotto for picks 1 through 8 in next season's draft, 8 best teams get put in lotto for picks 9 through 16. Lotto is for first round of draft only. Subsequent rounds are worst team to best team.

As you read this, we are talking about expanding from 16 to 20 teams in the future. This won't happen before 1969. The goal is to have an expansion plan in place within a week or three.

We attempt to keep things moving at a semi-brisk pace. We start drafting off the clock not too long after the 120 game mark at a leisurely pace. Once the playoffs start, we draft on the clock and pick up wherever we are in the draft at that point. We attempt to keep down time to a minimum between seasons, as we usually finish the draft around the same time that the World Series is finishing up.

Feel free to sitemail or post any questions, and looking forward to hearing from you! Team available is below.

Curious on how you decide to handle Expansion. Posting to more easily follow your League's process.

Posted by jmarino2 on 12/2/2014 6:30:00 PM (view original):id be interested in an expansion team

jmarino2, thank you for your interest!

We tentatively have owners for the 4 expansion teams, but we are creating a short waitlist in the event that one or more of the owners tentatively scheduled to run an expansion team back out. If you are so inclined, you'd be #2 on the waitlist, and I'd let you know either way when the time comes (estimation around the beginning of February).